WHAT’S THE ROLE?
The Duty Trader is responsible for managing daily operations as part of the Shell Energy Australia integrated portfolio of gas, electricity, and financial products. Working within the Shell Energy Spot Trading team, you will build an in-depth understanding of gas trading and power generation assets and create value through portfolio optimization, maintenance planning, and by integrating new business. In fulfilling these requirements, you will liaise with counterparties, partners and service providers to ensure timely and accurate decision making.
The team is required to operate within strict regulatory and compliance standards, contractual agreements, pre-defined risk limits, and Shell standards and internal guidelines. In this role you will work with other team members as part of a duty trader roster which provides coverage 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
On any day the role can be varied and could involve:
- Manage long term gas contract scheduling and optimization
- Negotiating terms of gas sales and purchases with customers
- Scheduling power station dispatch into the National Electricity Market (NEM) and Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM)
- Analyse gas and power market data to better inform strategy
- Interpret gas sales and purchase contracts for their operational obligations
- Collating data for internal compliance and regulatory submissions
- Analytics and data management to improve daily processes and ways of working
- Interact with customers, partners, service providers and pipeline operators to ensure timely and accurate scheduling activities (East & West Coast)
- Interact with the Wallumbilla Gas Supply Hub and the regulated markets on the East Coast including Short Term Trading Market (STTM) and Declared Wholesale Gas Market (DWGM).
- Engage with the broader spot team around strategy and planning, market events, and items for escalation.
- Presenting to broader Supply and Trading team on market events and portfolio planning
You will thrive in:
- Managing the physical scheduling and dispatch of the SEAu gas and power portfolios in a safe and timely manner and in accordance with regulatory and contractual obligations.
- Identifying, developing and executing opportunities to optimise the portfolios to create incremental value to the organisation in the short-term space.
- Operating as a well-rounded and high performing team with grounding in all aspects of physical gas and power trading operations, analysis, contract management, negotiation and risk management.
- Maintaining desktop applications and IT processes to ensure timely and accurate data management to support a growing business and evolving market landscape.
- Acting as an interface between long-term power and gas origination, business development and retail teams to integrate new business into the existing portfolio.
- Building negotiation and influencing skills to meet business objectives and to ensure effective communication across a range of internal and external stakeholders.
To succeed in this role, you will:
- Have a focus on compliance and maintain high standard of integrity
- Be a strong collaborator and be comfortable in engaging both internally and externally in a professional, courteous and purposeful manner
- Have a high attention to detail with the ability to prioritise and deliver to a high level of accuracy including in situations where time is limited.
- Be numerate with an analytical mindset and be comfortable in solving complex problems
- Have the ability to communicate clearly and accurately at all levels; Be comfortable working in a close team environment that requires individuals to take on a high level of accountability
- Have a commercial mindset with the ability to identify, assess and execute commercial opportunities
- Be a driven self starter who can operate autonomously and deliver to set targets; Be able to demonstrate resilience under pressure and the ability to deliver under tight time frames.
- Be prepared to work on a shift roster in the Brisbane office that can require availability at all hours of the day
- Tertiary qualification in STEM, business or related fiel